Why avoid the “r” word in any discussion around progressive Bernie supporters? “RIGGED”. There, I said it. Bernie may not have defeated Her Heinous in ’16, even in a totally fair election, but he damn sure would have beaten Trump if he did. In spite of Trump turning into Atilla the Hun the day after the inauguration, he campaigned and beat Hillary from her left on every issue except immigration. I would think that the purpose of superdelegates would be to avoid running a sure loser with a lot of baggage, not making the choice eight years in advance as “reward” for doing what they falsely claim Bernie didn’t, which is support the candidate.
The polling clearly showed this, so the choice to take a chance on an obviously corrupt, perpetually under investigation, establishment Republican posing as a Democrat and claiming to be “progressive” who polled lower in head to head was totally on the DNC and the corporate media. Even so, fewer of her supporters voted for Obama in ’08 than Bernie supporters voted for her in ‘16.
The threat of not voting for the Dem candidate if it isn’t Bernie may not be sufficient to hold off the neoliberal turd way Dems, but it has to have them losing sleep. Beating Trump is no great task for “almost” (Biden cough cough)any Dem on the debate stage, and one who isn’t. The man is an imbecile and Republican voters aren’t blind to it. He is courser, cruder, more dishonest, and dumber than most of his base and I know many moderate Republicans that say they cannot vote for him, even if they don’t vote for a Democrat either.
This would be considered a “free ball” in many sports, and the DNC would love to use it to place another neoliberal corporate Dem in the White House (after fumigating of course). Such a President, while not as embarrassing to the country, isn’t going to give the people Medicare for All, a federal job guarantee, debt-free college or end the resource wars, much less take on the fossil fuel industry and drug companies.
This will all but guarantee another Republican takeover of Congress in two years, and another Trump in four. The next one, not picked by the DNC and corporate media as “easy to beat”, will be smarter, smoother, and will send the Dems into the proverbial woods for decades, just when it was crawling out. It is for this reason that many Bernie supporters, many of whom aren’t Democrats, see no upside if Bernie isn’t the party’s nominee, and with climate change bearing down on us like a locomotive spells the doom of our species.
